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Is America Ready For A Black President? (10 June)

Written by TVSA Team from the blog 3rd Degree on 10 Jun 2008
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On 3rd Degree this Tuesday:

Episode: Is America Ready For A Black President?
Broadcast date: 10 June, 2008 at 20h00
Channel: e.tv

Can Barack Obama rise above America’s racial divisions and appeal to enough white and black voters to become the next President of the United States? He is a political sensation - more rock star than grey suit politician and is promising to unite America, saying that race should not matter.

Tonight 3rd Degree features a special BBC Panarama documentary that asks whether or not America's ready for a black president.

Made by journalist Hilary Andersson, the documentary finds strong support for Obama among white people in the wealthy suburbs of Chicago while finding that some black leaders are far less comfortable.

Civil rights activists Al Sharpton - a former candidate for the Democratic nomination for the US presidential election himself - believes that Obama cannot expect African Americans to support him because he is taking a cautious stance on America’s race issues in an attempt to appeal to white voters. As for hard-core right-wing whites, they cannot believe that a black person has the ability to run a modern democracy.

The political psychologist Drew Westen tells Panorama that Obama is every white person’s fantasy of what they’d like a black man to be. “He’s thoughtful, he’s articulate, he’s handsome, he doesn’t fit any of the stereotypes of the dangerous dark skinned black male that people see every day on television,” he says.

Derided by some in America, he has been the target of some false - but nonetheless damaging and certainly malicious - rumours.  If he does become America’s first black President, it will be a hard and long road ...

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6 Comments

Brown Shuga
09 Jun 2008 17:38

Call me ignorant but I don't care whether they are ready or not....they'll survive, it's 2008.
Are we done talking about our issues here? Obama doesn't care about us and there are enough stories about him on BBC, CNN, Sky News anyway, couldn't they save this one for that ETV's 24 hours news channel? If' it's not their movies, it's their ahows, their politics. I'm so tired of politics in general.


Kakapana
10 Jun 2008 03:31

i think that's why they choose this topic BS becoz now they have the 24hours news channel so maybe they want to appeal to all their viewers. 
i don't think they can have a different topic 4 the free 2 air channel and a diff one 4 the 24 hours channel, just my thought.
personally i like Barack but people are acting like he has won the elections already, he still has to face that old white man. McCain i think

Nonny
10 Jun 2008 03:44

As BS, says, whether they are ready or not, they will survive........eish vele why did I even respond lana coz I am not in2 politics especially @ TVSA!!!!

carino
10 Jun 2008 03:48

Nna when i saw this I was like... WTF??? Who cares??? With Xenophonia, Zuma, Benni McCathy, Jude Hlophe... and everything else going on in SA.... why now, are we concerned about America being ready??? I mean, really now??? Have we run out of news???

tha - bang
10 Jun 2008 04:03

Nna when i saw this I was like... WTF??? Who cares??? With Xenophonia, Zuma, Benni McCathy, Jude Hlophe... and everything else going on in SA.... why now, are we concerned about America being ready??? I mean, really now??? Have we run out of news???
lol but dont we need a distraction from our own reality sometimes.one could argue with xeno,justice hlophe, benni mccarthy we need something to inspire and barack obama does that.
should we care f he wins or not,thats a story for another day.
as for etv , i think they need to package the 24 hour channel differently from the free to air news.cause so far what they are doing is ama-repeat and looping of the same news over and over again.even to an extend of continously updating the news bullletin scroll.
this morning it was still refering to "italy vs Holland toninght" when the game had already played.

Fluffy Head
10 Jun 2008 04:14

I could not be bothered...wherether America is ready or not is really any of my business.. I don't care.

I know I should cause a when shait hits the fence in freaking dream land, the whole world is in trouble.....And that is a fact.

So I guess we should all be concerned one way or the other


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